CHAPTER XIV 



JUNE 28 TO JULY 18 MANASBAL TO SANGTHA 



Manasbal — Mulberries — Gagangair — Baltal — Zogi La — Broken bridge 

 below Machahoi — Pandras — Dras — Duldul — Kharbu — Kargil — 

 Darchik — Hiniscoot — Lamayuru — Saspul — Bazgo — Phyang Serai — 

 Leh — European community — Ladak game — Programme — Tents — 

 Servants — Furniture — Tiffin -basket — Supplies procured — Amritsar 

 merchant — Aligarh butter — Buddhist monasteries — Libraries — Rom- 

 biabagh — Fowls — Heat — Upshi — Miru — Gya — -Tagalang Pass — 

 Mountain-sickness — - Debring — Nomad's huts — Tent sewed up — 

 Violent yaks — Milking goats — March to Sangtha. 



Dawn of the 28th of June found us being towed along the 

 Jhekim, and by 9.30 a.m. we were at Manasbal, where I 

 found the shikari and cook waiting. The former was ex- 

 cessively sulky, and had made no arrangements for coolies. 

 My arrival, however, hurried him up, and by noon w^e 

 had started. It was very hot marching in the sun, and 

 I was glad to sit down about 2 p.m. and have my break- 

 fast under some fine mulberry-trees loaded with fruit. I 

 ate a good many, and the coolies also had a great feed. 

 The mulberries were particularly fine. We reached 

 Mangam by 3 p.m., and I was going on, but learning 

 that there was a shop in the neighbourhood from which 

 some supplies which were required could be procured. 



